The Event: RPT Training Series

Dates & Times:

June 14, 2024, 12:30-2:30pm

June 28, 2024, 12:30-2:30pm

July 12, 2024, 12:30-2:30pm

July 26, 2024, 12:30-2:30pm

Where: The group space at Joe’s office, located at 5060 Cascade Rd SE, Ste D, Grand Rapids, MI 49546

Description: This series offers clinicians the chance to engage in discussion and exploration of relational patterns being repeated unconsciously in the therapeutic relationship. I will facilitate a group of up to four other therapists, and we will use the MAMAL method to work through case consultations that each of the participants will bring in turn. The model is experience-first, so the theoretical learning comes at the end of each consult rather than the beginning. The primary focus of exploration will be the affect of each therapist in the room, rather than their thoughts.

Learning Objectives:

1) Participants will be able to recognize and describe the thoughts and feelings they have about their patients.

2) Participants will be able to describe the ways in which their thoughts and feelings about their patients regularly affect the work they do with those patients.

3) Participants will be able to give a therapeutic articulation of their experience of their patients to their patients.

Target Audience: Any person licensed in Michigan to provide counseling or psychotherapy. This generally includes Counselors, Social Workers, LMFTs, and Psychologists.

Instructor Bio: I (Joe) am a psychodynamic psychotherapist in private practice in Grand Rapids. I have been working in private practice 6 years, and have spent three of them completing the certificate program with the Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute. I’ve found a very rich, engaging, inspiring community at CPI, and I want to build a similar community of psychodynamic psychotherapists in West Michigan.

Agenda for Each Training (June 14, June 28, July 12, July 26)

• Introduction to the Consultation Model, Review of Structure: 00:00-5:00

• Participant Presents the Muse: 5:00-30:00

• Facilitator Leads Participants through the central three phases of the model: 30:00-1:00

• (Bathroom break 1:00-1:05)

• Facilitator Leads Participants through the central three phases of the model: 1:05-1:45

• Facilitator leads Participants through the Learning phase: 1:45-2:00:00

Continuing Education information:

This Training Series is ACE accredited which is sufficient for Social Worker’s requirements for Continuing Education Credits. For these four events a person can earn 8 credits. There is no partial credit, so a person must arrive at or before the start time, and stay for the whole event to receive any credit. A person can receive all the Continuing Education Credits or none at all.

I will provide attendance sheets to all attendees at the end of each event. I will take attendance at the beginning of the workshop and at the end. I will send Certificates of Completion via email within 30 days of completing the event.

Fee: $400 total ($100 per consultation)

Registration Deadline: Please reach out as soon as possible to register, as there are only 4 available spots per Training Series. The last possible day to register is the Friday before the event (so June 7 for this series). I accept payment at the time of the event via Check. Online payments via Paypal are also possible, please contact Joe via the contact information listed below to inquire about that option.

Refund Policy: If I need to cancel the event due to my becoming ill, I will contact all attendees as early as possible. I will offer a date to reschedule, those that can attend the new date will be automatically registered for that event. Those that cannot attend at that time will be issued a full refund. Outside of this event, no refunds are guaranteed.

Cancellation Policy: If I have to cancel the event for any reason I will offer the chance to reschedule, and a full refund will be offered to all participants.

Accessibility Questions: The exterior doors are accessible and there is an elevator to get to the second floor. The doors to my suite are all 32” or wider, but not automatic. Please contact me with any questions or requests for accessibility issues.

ACE Provider Statement: RPT Training Series, #5688, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Encounter Psychotherapy as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 04/09/2024–04/09/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 8 Clinical continuing education credits.

Completion Requirements: After registering and paying for the workshop successfully, one must be present for the entirety of all four Trainings. If an attendee fulfills these requirements, they will have met all criteria for 8 Continuing Education Credits, and will be sent a signed Certificate of Completion via email within 30 days of the event.

Contact for Registration & Questions : Contact Joe at joseph@encountergr.com, or call or text him at 616-287-5001. Once we talk and I confirm I have a spot for you, I will confirm that you are registered for the event. At that point you can elect to pay via Check or Paypal.

Grievance Procedure : If you encounter a problem or you have a complaint about this course or the way it is being offered, please first reach out to me, Joseph Hull, via this email address: joseph@encountergr.com, or call my work cell number : 616-287-5001.

I hope we can resolve any issue that arises. If we cannot, or you are dissatisfied with how I handle your complaint, you are free to contact the ASWB to submit a complaint. You can follow this link, or their website is www.aswb.org.

In the event that I receive a refund request, a complaint about course content, or about the speakers, facilities, non-receipt of certificates, and other miscellaneous occurrences, I will bring the issue to my clinical consultation group, which is a group of licensed professional counselors and social workers who meet monthly to support each other in our practices. I will accept the group consensus as to the most ethical way of handling the request, and relay that decision to whomever submitted the request or complaint.